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NEWSLETTER - March 2021
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Spring is coming, let's cultivate our seeds of hope and perseverance

By Josette Combes. The solidarity economy will be feminist or it will not be. It was with this slogan that the Basque Congress of Solidarity Economy had opened its session…

Launch of the anniversary campaign

Ripess Europe celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Here we are: Ripess Europe celebrates its 10th anniversary. Initially created in 2011, the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy – Europe or RIPESS Europe, was…

Echoes of Women's Rights Day

Starting on Monday 8th March for the International Women’s Rights Day 2021, RIPESS EUROPE decided to put sorority in the spotlight for a whole week. The network is more than ever committed to supporting feminism and transforming the economy into an egalitarian system between us all. Young women members of Ripess Eu demonstrate it in the article below.

Besides that, they had the idea to interview their older colleagues to ask for an inspiring testimony. May they give you the courage and hope we all need for building a better and fairer future. You may also have a look to Sabine Martel article who went all around the world to meet women cooperatives. Let’s close this “tour d’horizon” (overview) with REAS report on special women competencies.

Youth, feminism and SSE

By Andrea Rodriguez, RIPESS EU and Sofia Pereira, APDES Portugal. It is unusual for your first work experience as a young person to be in a democratic, horizontal environment that…

Women from the Network: meet Josette Combes (Click on the video below to watch the full interview)

“Women’s cooperatives are a privileged place of expression and empowerment” Interview with Sabine Martel

Interview with Sabine Martel, gender equality consultant for SSE associations and companies in PACA region (France), member of Osez le Féminisme 84 and expert on women’s cooperatives. Hello Sabine, how…

Women from the Network: meet Soana Tortora (Click on the video below to watch the full interview)

Women in the SSE: Competence profile report

Article by Reas, Red de redes, Spain What is the profile of women entrepreneurs in the SSE? With this question in mind, REAS has carried out an investigation whose report…

Women from the Network: meet Judith Hitchman (Click on the video below to watch the full interview)

News from the network

Economic democracy, Towards an ethic of the practice of citizenship

Article by Bérénice Dondeyne, Co-Chair MES Occitanie. The Mouvement pour l’Economie Solidaire is part of the Republic of SSE, following the tribune written by Jérôme Saddier, President of ESS France…

Interview with REAS, Red de Redes de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria

Carlos Rey Bacaicoa, general secretary, and Blanca Crespo Arnold tell us about REAS, Red de Redes, a collective that brings together organisations and solidarity-based entrepreneurship from all over Spain based on the…

For an agroecological transition in Europe

Article by Jocelyn Parrot, Urgenci. In a report launched February 2021, the Nyéléni Europe and Central Asia Food Sovereignty Network and Innovative Land Strategies Partnership outline how land policies can…

Transnational networks for regenerative development in Europe

By Luciane Lucas Dos Santos, REDPES, Portugal. RIPESS Europe will be at the core of a research project recently approved by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). This…

Talking about SSE

Roadmap of the EU action plan for social economy

The action plan for social economy of the European Commission seeks to boost the contribution of social economy organisations to a fair and sustainable growth. It will enhance social investment,…

Climate action through deep collaboration

By Communities for Future. 60 people gathered online on 23rd February for the latest Communities for Future Session. They dived into a discussion on how to enable meaningful and powerful…

Agenda

What Next? Summit : Building community power through immagination and action - Until 20th March

ERASMUS + BUSSE project final event - 17th March (17CET)

Conference "Sustainable food and collective catering" (French) by our member RTES - 19th March 13.30CET

REDPES/RIPESS EU Webinar : “Solidarity Economy and the Commons” – Ana Margarida Esteves, March 25rd 19CET

The week of SSE at school (France) - 22 to 27 March

Sustainable consumption & circular economy (Roadmap to Mannheim) - 25th March

CRISES International Conference : What social innovations against social, environmental and epistemic injustices? (6th edition) - 8th, 9th April

[MOOC] Internal transition: proposed by the Colibris Network - until 18th April

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March 2021 resources (in collaboration with socioeco.org)

This time, socioeco.org presents recent publications that challenge the dominant ideologies and put forward systemic proposals based on existing alternatives in different countries around the world. Enjoy reading! English The…

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